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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Elizabeth Tapia <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> <br />Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:46 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Please end Santa Ana's discriminatory Residential Permit Parking Program <br />Santa Ana Public Comment email, <br />Dear City Councilmembers, Mayor Sarmiento, and Public Works, <br />I live and work in the City of Santa Ana. I am a proud homeowner here at Hillview Regency <br />Condominiums located in Ward 3 but must admit feel a bit discouraged and discriminated <br />against. My fellow residents and I have struggled for many years with the permit parking <br />program that surrounds our condos. The complex where we live was built in the 1960s, and <br />the existing parking infrastructure is insufficient for the amount of cars registered here. Our <br />residents were once able to park in the surrounding streets when it was necessary, but ever <br />since the permit parking program was implemented in our neighborhood (2005), it has <br />become more and more difficult to find available parking. <br />Personally, as a female, I do not feel safe having to walk several blocks away from my car to <br />my home late at night just because I am not allowed to park in my own neighborhood. <br />Our residents are regularly cited for parking on the streets that surround us. Several families <br />simply sold their homes and left over the years because the dilemma was so unbearable. It <br />has only gotten worse as time has passed. My family and I alone have had to pay hundreds <br />of dollars in parking citations because of this problem. <br />Our HOA is currently in the process of establishing more on -site parking, but it is a very <br />lengthy and costly process, and there is no guarantee that the project will provide enough <br />spaces to meet our needs. <br />If the permit parking program is to continue in our city, we ask that the public works <br />department make allowances for residents of our complex to purchase our own permits to <br />park on the neighborhood streets so that we too can come home and not have to fret over <br />where we will leave our vehicles over night. <br />15 <br />